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...sometimes seems as though everyone?Yan Peter Tamban, the desperate miners, processing unit workers like Michael, gold-struck villagers like Freddy Sigarlaki, the army and police?wants things to go on as they are. Or like Fecky, who lives next to a processing unit, and powerless government officials like Bonny, who simply accept that there's no way to stop the mining. Everyone except Daniel Limbong, that is. Unlike the others, he has seen what happened to scores of other mineworkers, what happened to Femmy's baby boy. And now, "we have a report of a second deformed baby born...
Send the architects south. Silicon Valley may be powerless and profitless, but Houston, the nation's energy capital and home to the oil-baron excesses of the 1980s, is back in "bidness." The energy giants in Texas have big fat wallets these days--and even bigger construction plans. Not since the boom days of 1982, when trophy architects like Philip Johnson and I.M. Pei reconfigured the skyline, has Houston seen so much construction activity by the energy sector...
This the movie does by employing the latest in animation technology. The producers call it a "fluid animation system." We are powerless to explain how it works, but we can describe what it produces: a very persuasive three-dimensionality and an astonishingly subtle range of facial expressions for all Shrek's characters...
Tanaka, 57, doesn't want to be Japan's ninth Prime Minister in 10 years. Necessarily. The daughter of legendary '70s PM Kakuei Tanaka is the most popular politician in Japan, speaking out against the factionalism and corruption that have left the nation powerless to snap out of its 10-year recession. Polls show her ahead in the popularity contest--but that's not the decisive factor for loyalty-driven Liberal Democratic Party Pooh-Bahs...
...difficulties to seeking education. But the administration’s efforts to improve worker training and provide literacy instruction are far better solutions than simply throwing wads of money at the problem, which is what PSLM wants. The very idea of a wage floor suggests that its beneficiaries are powerless without our indiscriminate pity. Isn’t that selling them just a little bit short...